User:Magick777/My N900 Scheduling
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Approaches to scheduling
fcron
alarmed
What do I need to schedule
Backups
- Regular backups to be scheduled from alarmed at such time as I have a suitable backup script.
Maintenance
- Reset GPRS data counters, monthly (done via Alarmed)
Profiles
Optimisations
- Power management - maximise battery life (opportunistically)
Criteria for scheduling events
Time-based scheduling
Certain actions need to be scheduled according to time of day, week or month, i.e. as per the scheduling behaviour of the Unix cron daemon. There seem to be two viable ways of achieving this, via fcron and Alarmed. The [fcron] page is well-written and useful, but I think Alarmed is the better tool for the job, partly on the strength of the GUI and partly because it uses an existing daemon rather than adding another one.
Phone status & event scheduling
Calendar-based scheduling
Location-based scheduling
- When not at home, turn WiFi off unless and until explicitly requested
- When at home, turn WiFi on and autoconnect
Changelog for scheduled events
This will be moved to the bottom of the page later.
2010-07-15
- Installed 'alarmed' from extras-devel, had to ln -sf python2.5 to /usr/bin/python
- Configured alarmed to reset GPRS data at 0000 on 1st of each month